AGING U.S.A. POPULATION, 2010-2030: IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING EDUCATION (UNITED STATES).
Contributors: Temple University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Statement of the problem. The basic problem of this study was to describe the impact of a growing elderly population on nursing care for the period 2010 to 2030. This impact on nursing care was examined from the perspective of the demands on nursing care within public health and community health. The principal aim was to derive implications for nursing education.

First, the origins and foci of public health nursing and community health nursing were described.

Second, the aging population for the period 2010 to 2030 was described, including male/female and white/nonwhite composition, as these factors related to actual and potential health problems. This time period was critical; it incorporated the 65th anniversary of the so-called "baby-boom" population.

Third, the actual and potential health problems for the 2010 to 2030 elderly population and their impact on demand for community health nursing and/or public health nursing care were described.

Fourth, given the projected demand for community health nursing and/or public health nursing care for older Americans of 2010 to 2030, implications for nursing education were derived.

Implications. The elderly population and its projected actual and potential health problems will exert demands on community health nursing and public health nursing in 2010 to 2030. For nursing practice to address these future needs, nursing education must begin now to address the substantive distinctiveness of these two areas of nursing practice. It is proposed that the focus of community health nursing is situated outside of health care institutions and functions toward provision of nursing care for specific health problems of the individual, family or group, and that the focus of public health nursing is situated within tax supported agencies with legal mandates and within circumscribed geopolitical communities, and functions toward disease prevention and health promotion. The substantive distinctiveness of community health nursing and public health nursing can provide the linkage between these two areas of nursing practice. The linkage provides the bases for adequate and appropriate nursing care and nursing education. The linkage assures the projection, development and assessment of community health nursing education programs and public health nursing education programs that find their bases in nursing.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-04, Section: A, page: 0867.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0225.